Aug
22
Is Biomass to Gasoline Ready?
August 22, 2008 | 15 Comments
Probably, and it is rushing to a sure thing. The news broke that Byogy Renewables has licensed the methane to liquid fuels technology from Texas Engineering and Experiment Station (TEES), a part of Texas A&M University. The Byogy process is a stack of processes starting with pre-treating the “energy crop” such as municipal waste in […]
Aug
21
Nuclear Hot Tub Reactors $25 Million Each
August 21, 2008 | 16 Comments
Hyperion Power Generation’s nuclear reactor licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory has customers for likely six to start and perhaps as many as fifty. About the size of a hot tub, well actually two stacked up or 1.5 meter cubed or cubed at less than 5 feet, these units are quite small. Manufactured and sealed […]
Aug
20
Go Where the Heat Energy Is
August 20, 2008 | 3 Comments
The U.S. alone has an estimated 19,000 square miles of asphalt paved roads and parking lots. As essentially everyone can attest, asphalt is a great infrared absorber and being very dense holds a lot of heat thus toasting bare feet with slight sun and barely warm temperatures. Now 19K square miles is a lot of […]
Aug
19
A Look A Lithium Accumulators
August 19, 2008 | 12 Comments
Many of us are familiar with accumulators in gas and hydraulic systems as a vessel that stores a volume usually with an internal diaphragm that has a spring force by a compressed gas. The result is a cell that can buffer the system gases or fluids smoothing pressure spikes. As a practical point though, a […]
Aug
18
Renewables Grow Up From Being a Carrot to Carrying a Whip
August 18, 2008 | 4 Comments
Congress can’t get the alternative energy credits renewed and on the books for the (I’ve lost count) time. By itself the missing tax credits will be a problem. But the price of coal, oil and natural gas will still be their own undoing as primary fuel sources. It’s about the money. Alternatives such as solar […]